Pedal Power Digital Supply.

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    • April 30, 2014 at 1:22 am #111577
      fahrner
      Member

      In the Voodoo Lab manual, it is recommended to run Eventide pedals at 12 Volts using the 400 mA outputs. It goes so far to say that this does not match the supplied Eventide adapter but does power the pedals correctly.

      Is this true? Why would bit be OK to run these 9 V pedals at 12 Volts?

    • April 30, 2014 at 4:57 pm #125811
      nickrose
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      Eventide Staff

      You should probably ask Mr Voodoo. My guess is that he considers the 12V output to be within the acceptable range of a 9V pedal – if it was stable it would be OK.

    • April 30, 2014 at 5:31 pm #125812
      fahrner
      Member

      Thank you for the quick reply. Was just looking at the Eventide PF2 and it looks that it powers the Eventide pedals at 12 Volts as well. Is there something lacking in the Pedal Power Digital or some magic in the PF2 that makes it different? Thanks for your help. It's important for me to get this right.

    • April 30, 2014 at 5:44 pm #136549
      nickrose
      Moderator
      Eventide Staff

      Obviously we can only advise on the use of Eventide products. Questions about other products should go to their manufacturers.

      That said, the pedal's current requirements reduce at higher voltages, but if the voltage gets beyond a certain point, even for a fraction of a second, it may cause damage. So, a stable well regulated 12V at 400mA may be effectively the same as 9V at 500mA. Note that a poorly regulated 9V may exceed 12V, which is OK, while a poorly regulated 12V may exceed 16V, which would probably cause damage. You can see why we don't want people to experiment with these things.

    • May 14, 2014 at 2:01 pm #125933
      gigi
      Participant

      hi there 🙂

      without opening a new thread, I wonder if I can use PowerFactor with H9, since H9 requires 500mA, while PF has max 400 on each spot :/

      thank you 🙂

    • May 14, 2014 at 2:56 pm #125934
      badmelonfarmer
      Participant

      Yes you can.

      the PowerFactor actually uses 12v to power the Factor pedal and H9's

    • May 14, 2014 at 3:39 pm #136648
      gigi
      Participant

      badmelonfarmer:

      Yes you can.

      the PowerFactor actually uses 12v to power the Factor pedal and H9's

      so, since I'm not into those kind of things, I can use 9v and 500mA or 12v and 400mA?

      is that right? 

    • May 14, 2014 at 6:00 pm #136652
      badmelonfarmer
      Participant

      Yes, the supplied Wall Wart is 9v 500 mA and the connections on the PowerFactor at 12v 400mA

      off the top of my head

    • May 18, 2014 at 5:14 am #136673
      gigi
      Participant

      so, those solutions are pretty equivalent, right?
      of course I'm talking about well regulated power supplies 🙂

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